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Event Report: OpenStack India Day, 2013

OpenStack India Day, one day event was held on 21st September 2013 in Bangalore, India. Indian OpenStack User Group organizes this annual event that sets the platform to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge with each other on OpenStack and its ecosystem. The event was attended by over 200 people from various domains.

The event started with the keynote session – “Future of Indian OpenStack User Group” by Kavit Munshi (CTO & EVP, Aptira). His talk has thrown insights on how the Indian OpenStack User Group has achieved tremendous growth since inception and what steps need to be taken in the future to enhance its visibility and contributions to the OpenStack ecosystem.

Planning your cloud deployment is a crucial thing and becomes even more significant when you want to roll out a production cloud. Tom Fifield, Community Manager of OpenStack, has given some details on things to be considered while deploying an OpenStack powered cloud.

Next Mark Baker from Canonical has presented on how we can leverage CEPH for various storage needs of OpenStack on Ubuntu.

This was followed by an insightful talk by Rick Roeling on HP Converged Cloud and various OpenStack offerings from HP.